Flu pandemic?

Swine Flu.

Ruth is the closest down there in AZ.

We'll be watching this closely, thanks Michael.

It appears parts of Southern Cal, Kansas, and New York have reported an unusual flu virus people have picked up, or at least, showing the symptoms of it.

On a Presidential note-----

The first case was seen in Mexico on April 13. The outbreak coincided with the President Barak Obama's trip to Mexico City on April 16. Obama was received at Mexico’s anthropology museum in Mexico City by Felipe Solis, a distinguished archeologist who died the following day from symptoms similar to flu, Reforma newspaper reported. The newspaper didn’t confirm if Solis had swine flu or not.

NEW YORK???

Oh geez...I'm worried a bit now. Erin is sick again...with a fever and her teacher said she had four kids in her class out as well a few others in other classes out with an intestinal upset!

Probably nothing but one has to wonder....especially being so close to New York!!!

Here's the New York story where they aren't quite sure what caused a sudden outbreak of illnesses at schools there.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/queens/2009/04/25/2009-04-25_150_kids_sick_at_queens_school.html

Thanks Paul!!

Hmmm...it really makes me wonder!! Keep your fingers crossed that she won't get sicker!!

I just got sent an map to keep track of the outbreak, four weeks ago the Mexican regular army was fighting guerilla style with machine guns with the drug lords down there, two weeks ago it was in Mexicali, where the highest breakout is said to been so far of this Swine Flu,  I am reading what they had to say about the Califronia kids that caught it and wonder if it's drug related, or military, as you know the drug lords... if they lost the battle would have the money to retaliate possibly with something of this type. My own kids came down really sick with some kind of flu bug, remember..it was after some Mexican friends of their's stayed over night here during an storm, so they wouldn't' have to drive back home up north around Longview, Washington (state)..they have an name long associated with both gangs and drugs locally, but nothing serious as to drug lords that I'm aware of, we hardly see these people any more. Though I "think" this particular family is in ways trying to break their own hispanic family ties in ways. My kids did... when they moved back here in our house with us. Some of them are into hospitals also, medical field type jobs....but anyway. I'd spread the word to not get or do "street" type drugs right now really strong if your young and into this sort of thing...they could be tainted with the Swine Flu. The fighting in Mexcio is getting "dirty" in ways, and short of, as one person has already called it..an internal "revolution" going on. Yes, it has the potential of dragging most the south western border states into it also. Plus "coast" had an thing that they are in all our larger cities and could cause riots if they wanted to right now between hispanics and whites...these drug lords and associates are armed with stollen weapons that can't be tracked also. Just thought you'd like to know. Play it safe.